The persuasive expansion: rhetoric, information architecture, and conceptual structure

  • Authors:
  • Per F. V. Hasle

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Communication, Aalborg University

  • Venue:
  • ICCS'06 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Conceptual Structures: inspiration and Application
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Conceptual structures are, as a rule, approached from logical perspectives in a broad sense. However, since Antiquity there has been another approach to conceptual structures in thought and language, namely the rhetorical tradition. The relationship between these two grand traditions of Western Thought, Logic and Rhetoric, is complicated and sometimes uneasy – and yet, both are indispensable, as it would seem. Certainly, a (supposedly) practical field such as Information Architecture bears witness to the fact that for those who actually strive to work out IT systems conceptually congenial to human users, rhetorical and logical considerations intertwine in an almost inextricable manner.